Quoting: damarrinDoes the laptop come with integrated gfx? Maybe that's what's running.

Is the nvidia driver loaded and running?

Hey Damarrin!
Well that was also my guess that maybe there is an integrated GPU chip, I have to check, the latest 515 version of the NVIDIA driver is definitively installed (per default with PopOS 22.04 nvidia version), now if it running..
I have to check, I guess running "nvidia-smi" would give me some hints if the driver is loaded at least..

Quoting: Veynacal

Quoting: damarrinDoes the laptop come with integrated gfx? Maybe that's what's running.

Is the nvidia driver loaded and running?

Hey Damarrin!
Well that was also my guess that maybe there is an integrated GPU chip, I have to check, the latest 515 version of the NVIDIA driver is definitively installed (per default with PopOS 22.04 nvidia version), now if it running..
I have to check, I guess running "nvidia-smi" would give me some hints if the driver is loaded at least..

I have just checked.. the "Pop OS 22.04 Nvidia version" is supposed to come with the NVIDIA driver preinstalled, which is also the case checking the "Pop!Shop" "Installed" items
BUT when I run the "nvidia-smi" command in the terminal I still get exactly the same issue as I had in Ubuntu 20.04.. : "nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running."

Any hints ?

Do
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
That'll tell you what is running your graphics adapter and what it is.

If glxinfo is not found, install mesa-utils and try again.

Last edited by damarrin on 16 Sep 2022 at 11:24 am UTC

Quoting: damarrinDo
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
That'll tell you what is running your graphics adapter and what it is.

If glxinfo is not found, install mesa-utils and try again.

Hi! you were right Damarrin,
seems that a Intel internal GPU is still used, not the NVIDIA GPU.. :

OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 22.0.5
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.0.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 22.0.5
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

I don't know Pop OS enough to say how it handles switching between gfx cards, but I’m sure you can find some info. I vaguely remember S76 selling some laptops with hybrid gfx, so I suppose it should have that sorted somehow.

Also, there may be an option in the BIOS?